From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: query-replace-interactive not documented Date: 14 Jun 2004 22:49:50 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040528.181649.25475113.wl@gnu.org> <200405291737.i4THbPJ06689@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <873c5jug73.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87oenqa4lu.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <873c51w5rq.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087246267 20532 80.91.224.253 (14 Jun 2004 20:51:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:51:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 14 22:50:55 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZyPu-00025J-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:50:54 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZyPu-00035C-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:50:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZyQo-0005ld-7s for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:51:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZyPd-0004x4-RW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:50:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZyPb-0004uO-TF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:50:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZyPb-0004tl-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:50:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.237] (helo=pfepc.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BZyOb-0001r7-GK; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:49:33 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id E654826281A; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:49:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:24967 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24967 Richard Stallman writes: > Of course, most of these uses could be avoided if the replacement > string of the ordinary query-replace-regexp would offer, say > > M-x query-replace-regexp RET > \\footnote{ RET > \\footnote{\\label{fn:\!replace-count} RET > > or > > \\footnote{\\label{fn:\!(format "%d" replace-count)} RET > > Namely \! followed by a sexp. > > That seems like an interesting idea. I would prefer a syntax which can be parsed with `read', which includes the second example above, but not the first one. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk